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Even the losers

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Murdering Hayek

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factions are defined by their alliances at least as much as their ideas.

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for a cat that really wants to catch that bird, the No Bell Prize is a high honor indeed.

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it’s untraceable.

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what if we gave Trump a Greenland-shaped medal made of 24kt GOLD?

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your speeding tickets mean we have a right to execute you if we find you inconvenient.

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who are the pepper of the earth?

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“If you’re talking about abundance and you think corruption and consolidated corporate power is some kind of afterthought in the conversation of why the government consistently fails to deliver, I’m going to have a hard time taking you seriously.”

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the bait took me.

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you can abolish ICE and still enforce immigration law. it’s called e-verify + fines to employers of the unverifiable. (i would like our immigration laws to be more hospitable than they are. But effective enforcement of our current laws does not require detention or violence.)

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“no peace this side of the grave,” what are the implications for winning the nobel peace prize?

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he is an officer and a gentleman.

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The residents of the house in this video behave with extraordinary control and courage.

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yes.

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i don't actually want ICE to be better trained, if it is these guys doing the training.

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the future is a mashup of Terminator and Idiocracy.

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i like it when Alan Greenspan appears in the news. it makes me feel young again.

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this is still the fucking around stage, only nobody's having fun.

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one person can’t run a country. the vesting clause in the constitution is written in what has turned out to be a catastrophically stupid way. 1/

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representatives jobs aren’t to know everything there is to be known. their job is to understand the values and interests of their constituents, manage expert technocrats to find feasible expressions of those values and interests, and work with colleagues to get those expressions passed. 2/

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admittedly, this is nothing like what contemporary US Congresspeople actually do, since we’ve made fundraising and campaigning their core work, and Gingrich fired their experts. 3/

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the US has institutionally deviated very far from anything that can be described in theory (in practice is now obvious) as a plausibly functional democracy. but that doesn’t mean plausibly functional democracies are impossible! /fin

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